Re-typed verbatim Letter- from Mladic to Gen Smith – Source ICTY 0208-9224 – EDT Draft translation 16 01 90 00 28 250 Pera SRNA - Serb News Agency – No 17 816 – 06 – Date 11 July 1995 – Pale Main Staff of the Republika Srpska Army No 06 17 – 455 Date 10 July 1995 To The UNPROFOR Command – Sarajevo Personally to General Rupert Smith General Sir I received your letter from 9 July 1995 Srebrenica enclave was not demilitarized in the spirit of th agreement from 19 April and 8 May 1993 Muslims did not surrender their weapons mines and explosives and combat means to UNPROFOR Muslims took advantage of their special zone status the presence of your forces for preparation and execution of terrorist and other combat activities against Serb population and the territory of Republika Srpska Allow me to remind you that from then until now Muslim forces killed 100 and wounded over 200 civilians in the attacks and with infiltrated sabotage terrorist groups They burned many Serb villa along the zone and committed heinous crimes against civilians In the last couple of days they sta wide military operation in order to link up with the enclave in the area of the Žepa village and the down the villages of Višnjíca and Banja Luĉica and killed the residents In implementation of their intentions even the UNPROFOR members were not spared Although your forces protected them th also became their victims Crimes committed against innocent civilians provoked illegible in order to neutralize Muslim terro Our activities are not directed against civilians and the UNPROFOR members who are deployed in enclave A certain number of UNPROFOR members who fled to our territory after their soldier was by Muslims saw that for themselves They were properly accepted accommodated and made saf I assure you that as far as we are concerned UNPROFOR members can be completely calm and s as they used to be until now I am convinced that your patience and better understanding of entire situation shall be useful to t peace in this area COMMANDER Lieutenant General Ratko Mladić signed stamped